the truly absurd part is that there is priority art, en -mass and when you patent something you have to sign that you did proper research and found that there

the truly absurd part is that there is priority art, en -mass and when you patent something you have to sign that you did proper research and found that there is priority art etc. parents aren't a first tries to patent it wins system, but first tries to patent something which isn't publicly available/known wins system can we pleas start hugely penalizing companies for blandly deceiving the patent office, i.e. doing what I would say is systematic fraud (and no longer make the patent office have the number of patents they grant being a positive/desired metric, too)